Class variables: public access read-only, but private access read/write

Question

Whoopee, not working on that socket library for the moment. I\'m trying to educate myself a little more in C++.

With classes, is there a way to make a variable read-

Answer 1

but temp.x = 5; not allowed?

This is any how not allowed in the snippet posted because it is anyhow declared as private and can be accessed in the class scope only.

Here are asking for accessing

cout << temp.x << endl;

but here not for-

int myint = temp.x;

This sounds very contradictory.